Oh is this what we’re doing now? Getting all pissy because a satirist wasn’t sufficiently somber about sexual harassment allegations he had never heard before, about his good, long-time friend, sourced from “a couple of tweets by people” i.e. nobody credible?

I’ve never been down with the modern progressive thought that all allegations/accusations must immediately be taken as factual. It’s rife for manipulation.

And, yet, from this article, it seems like a lot of the most vicious members of the Beyhive are young men who are using this as an excuse to call non-Beyonce women, and mostly black women (and girls), whores and thots and all kinds of misogynistic bullshit, supposedly in defense of Bey, but come the fuck on.

I expected it to last longer and be more substantial

Taylor may have had a leg up, but her parents didn’t do the work for her. She has worked hard for her career and leveraged that boost to make something. There’s something so insulting and dismissive about the attitude that because Taylor had some help at the beginning nothing she does counts.

Allen’s presumption is that only women are oppressed, and that Democrats need to appeal to the non-oppressed. Of the 30% of this nation who are both white and male, you’ll still find that many of them live in poverty and oppression and would be benefited by social democratic ideals as they are. So maybe what Allen is…

...we are loath to deeply criticize women for being superficial, or “fake,” or subservient to an arrangement they chose for themselves—as is, of course, their right.

Agreed. I was looking forward to biting humor, making fun of white people, etc. Especially during the first half, it just wasn’t funny. I get most of my news via the web, not from tv, so maybe that was part of the problem? And Wilmore’s delivery was amateurish. He got better with the Zodiac killer parts. Otherwise, I…

How are we to distinguish intent when what we must rely upon is behavior? Rather than trying to parse what is internal and therefore implied, but not wholly visible, by over examining every action is pointless. If McGorry or any celebrity discussed another political issue, like the ever-popular environmental causes,…

Don’t people understand anything? Beyonce never really talks about the other woman, she doesn’t rage at her or confront her. She doesn’t degrade the other woman. This album is not for them. It’s not for the side-chick; it’s not for the cheating spouse; it’s for all the women who’ve been cheated and lied to and had to…

Ellie:

This one of the most even-handed and accurate assessments that Gawker Media has published to date. If even half of their coverage was like this, I think we’d all be better informed. Nuance is a big deal, and something that is easily missed when it comes to election sloganeering.

ok ok I feel really bad for how the commenters are treating this piece at the moment, so let me just say....even though I didn’t like it, a lot of the harsher comments are just us being jerks. Everybody here likes being the funny asshole and it runs away with us. It takes guts to write something and have it out there,…

They're Jezebel bloggers now.

Me thinks your white guilt is preventing you from criticizing a black woman and blinding you from the obvious which was that Banks vitriol was genuine.

Working to make those inequalities go away is being a feminist, but more importantly, it makes me a humanist.

While what she said is totally self involved and thoughtless, admitting that she’s gorgeous gets nothing but applause from me. Good for her. We teach women they aren’t allowed to be proud of how they look or acknowledge their beauty.

I get that feeling from mushrooms.

People who want to make sure they have an ideologically pure voting record at the expense of real people getting hurt by letting a Republican win really make my heart hurt.

I hated business school because everyone was so ridiculously idealistically conservative but this election is making me realize the opposite of that is, well not as bad but still pretty annoying. I guess I’m more of a moderate than I thought.